. A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation. that theywere all relics of holy men who had died on the island; butI suspect they must occasionally have robbed the church-yard of a few lay-brethren, and perhaps now and then of aheretic, (as strangers are interred in their burying ground,) inorder to accumulate such a prodigious number which, on arough computation, I should suppose to amount to at leastthree thousand. The skull of one of the holy brotherhoo
. A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation. that theywere all relics of holy men who had died on the island; butI suspect they must occasionally have robbed the church-yard of a few lay-brethren, and perhaps now and then of aheretic, (as strangers are interred in their burying ground,) inorder to accumulate such a prodigious number which, on arough computation, I should suppose to amount to at leastthree thousand. The skull of one of the holy brotherhoodAvas pointed out as having a lock-jaw, which occasioned hisdeath ; and, from the garrulity of our attendant, I have nodoubt we might have heard the history of many more equallyimportant, which, though thrown away upon us who had notaste for craniology, would, in all probability, have beenhighly interesting to Doctor Gall, the famous lecturer onskulls in Vienna. On taking leave we deposited our miteon the altar, as charity to the convent, which seems to bethe principal object in view of collecting and exhibitino- thismemento mori of the monastic and mendicant order of MADEIRA. 9 There are other convents, to which young-wonieu are some-times sent for the purpose of completing their education; butnot a sino;le instance of the veil having !)een taken occurs formany vears past. IMarried Avomen also, who are particularlytenacious of their character, and who wish to be considered asmodels of chastity and virtue, sometimes retire into a conventdurino-the absence of their husbands. In those which werevisited by our party, we saw only a few antiquated virgins,who affected a considerable degree of shyness ; and thoughtheir air and general appearance were not ill calculated toinspire feelings of pity, it was not, hoAvever, of that kindwhich melts the soul to love, but Avhose less powerful in-fluence pleads rather to the purse than to the heart: andaccordinoly we gave them, wh
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